"So you have narrowed "human life's beginning" to the meeting of sperm & egg , but not successfully addressed the rights of the mother."
Thank you for your forthright admission. One would not expect it would be so hard to get people to acknowledge something so obviously evident.
Your environmental argument just does not come close to a justification for Abortion on demand. I say the same thing every year when I don't want to put up Christmas lights. "I'm saving the planet" I tell my wife; "Ya right" is her reply..."If you don't want to do it, just say so instead of giving me lame excuses" Not that the environment is not important; it just does not have much, if anything, to say on the issue of whether it is right for one Human Person to take the life of another innocent Human Person.
As to addressing Womans rights; No person, male or female, has the "right" to pursue their own rights without regard for other people who might be affected by their choices, especially if your choice, results in my death. Where more than one person is involved then each one's rights are in some way restricted or modified by the others.
So right back to the beginning. What is a Human Person? Lack of certainty demands that we error, if at all, on the side of life, to preclude the possibility that we be ignorantly guilty of murder. Human life unambiguously begins at conception and should be respected and protected from that point forward.
The plight of Women in the third world is real, but it hardly justifies Western Woman killing their own unborn children at any time for any reason. |
